Polytunnel direction?

[gardening_gal]

I've spent the last wee while overthinking again and I now can't see the woods for the trees.

My house is in the middle of a housing scheme so it has other houses all round it which cast shade. There's really only 2 places where a tunnel could go and get some sun.

If you imagine a clock face, South is where 1 is and West is where 4 is. (Obviously North is 7 and East is 10.) My house has the 4 corners corresponding to N,S,E,W etc.

So my options are to have the (6mx3m) polytunnel door at 12 o'clock walking into the tunnel heading down to 6 o'clock or 3 o'clock walking across to 9 o'clock. A kind of reversed 'L' shape.

Either way there will be a bit of shade cast both ways depending on the time of day but it's probably pretty even in hours of sun per day in total.

Help? Which way should I put it?

I should add both ways will mean one side of it going beside a fence

[Vince G]

In my opinion, it depends on the direction of your strongest winds. I always think you want the wind to hit your tunnel at an angle rather than directly at the side or front of it.

Here's a link to the Google Map of our site with my polytunnel being the one that looks like it has the cross on the top.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ha...312!4d1.145326

To use your clock example, the prevailing strong wind comes from the south west which is at about 8 o'clock. So you can see that the wind glances off it.

[Snoop Puss]

^Seconded.

[gardening_gal]

Thanks both.

I have no idea which way the wind hits my garden, it just seems windy all over. I shall have to investigate.